The Trait Crate: Grade 3

Grade 3. In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect picture books with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The third-grade version includes: 6 picture books: The Hickory Chair; The Paperboy; How Are You Peeling?; Into the A, B, C; Momma, Where Are You From?; and The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization Machine. Also includes Six 16-page teaching guides, each with a step-by-step model lesson, graphic organizers, a scoring rubric, extension activities, 12 transparencies and 6 colorful teaching posters. Add to this Culham's best-selling professional book, Using Picture Books to Teach Writing With the Traits, and color-coded stickers, and you've got a complete resource for teaching with the traits.